It's your last chance to catch up on Oscar contenders. Lucky for you many of them are still playing at a theater (or TV screen) near you.

AMC Mayfair Mall shows the final five best-picture nominees in a package on Saturday, and the Marcus Ridge Cinema is showing eight of the nine in package deals on Friday and Saturday; the movies are included below, but check the theaters' websites for details. And those nominated live-action and animated short films are still playing at the Oriental Theatre. | Feb. 21, 2013»Read Full Article

Alice Cooper

A curtain of gold sparks blowing in the cool Lake Michigan breeze greeted Alice Cooper at the BMO Harris Pavilion Sunday night at Summerfest. Sporting a dapper black-and-red striped suit (tails and all), the 65-year-old rocker slashed a black cane through the air before tossing it into the crowd at the end of the opening "Hello Hooray." | July 1, 2013»Read Full Article

He may have proclaimed himself Mr. Worldwide, but Pitbull is no Mr. Summerfest.

The party-starting rapper and pop star was the riskiest act to book at the Marcus Amphitheater, where he performed Sunday. Not that he hasn't been playing rooms of this size in North America in recent weeks — but he was doing it with co-headliner Ke$ha, who had a scheduling conflict and couldn't play the Milwaukee show. | June 30, 2013»Read Full Article(24)

Melanie Leadingham, a 22-year-old Oshkosh native and longtime Summerfest regular, got to the festival grounds at 7:30 p.m. Saturday to find long ticket lines running from the festival gates to the street.

Leadingham said Sunday that she stood in line for about two hours before "it got really bad." A teenage girl pushed Leadingham down for asking that she stay in line. Leadingham got back up — only to have someone else behind her push her up against the glass of a ticket window. | June 30, 2013»Read Full Article(99)

Before gearing up to perform at Summerfest's U.S. Cellular Connection Stage tonight, Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave performed an acoustic version of "S(a)tan" for Tap Milwaukee's music writer, Piet Levy. Check out the band that hails from Oakland, Calif., tonight at 8 p.m. | June 30, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Fest experience: Taylor recalls seeing his first big concert, Earth, Wind & Fire, when he was 11 or 12. His blues band, Altered Five, played its first Summerfest 10 years ago under rainy conditions and has been back every year since. | June 30, 2013»Read Full Article

THREE TO SEE: JUNE 30

Something known: Alice Cooper (8 p.m. BMO Harris Pavilion). The shock rocker is still rocking hard, thanks in part to the presence of master shredder Orianthi, the lead guitarist on Michael Jackson's ill-fated "This Is It" London residency. | June 30, 2013»Read Full Article